(Closed) Anyone else have a botched proposal?

I know that the holidays have brought many happy engagements. Congrats to you all! My engagement happened last May. It was one of those days where anything that could have went wrong, did. Of course I had no idea the proposal was in store, but after the days events (including my computer crashing and driving 3 hours to get it fixed) I was tired, cranky, and I took a long nap which subsequently caused us to miss the dinner/proposal planned.

So my Fiance ended up proposing in my living room which ended up being very sweet. Little did I know my sister was in on the whole thing and she was supposed to be waiting there for us at the movie we had planned on seeing after the planned dinner. In the end I was happy it still took place on the day, (even though my Fiance was so nervous it almost didn’t) this haunts me all the time when my sister and Fiance bring it up every now and again. Even my grandma once made a comment about how “I didn’t want to get up from my nap long enough to get proposed to”, (Gram, I DIDN’T KNOW!)

I know this shouldn’t matter so much because in the end I remember it fondly despite the sressful chain of events that happened before, but every now and again I see these great proposal stories that I could have had. Thanks for reading, listening, and if anyone else has a similar story, share:)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhv*HUGS* It’s bitter, unfortunately. I think you should tell your sister about it. Hopefully she might pass the message onto your fiance’ and he could replan the night. I wish I knew your family so I could help plan something special.

Even when things went alright for me, I wish thngs turned out differently as well. Look at it this way, I guess your fiance’ couldn’t hold out any longer and really wanted to express his feelings to you. Which is still very sweet. It was still a suprise. 🙂

I fell asleep the night I was proposed to too! Then I found out that I messed up my “first” proposal and would have been engaged 5-6 weeks sooner! Last November (2010) I threw a bday party for him, and we had planned on a quick dinner before the bar party. I called him and told him a couple was going to join us for sushi…. so he left the ring at home, and the friends cancelled at the last minute! Oops!!!

Fast forward through the holidays (I didnt want a holiday proposal and consider the holidays over when the ball drops on NYE). It was raining on NYE and we were having a good night just the two of us at home (had a long week, didn’t want to go out afterall), and I was hanging out in underwear and a long tshirt watching movies (its our apartment, whatever), and was teasing him all about “pantsless new years”. I fell asleep as was exhausted and had had a few drinks and woke up to him bounching on my exercise ball (he had kept drinking from nerves 🙂 ), telling me to wake up for the countdown. We stood up to count down …. the ball dropped, he went down on one knee and proposed… and I said “yes… Where are my pants, I need my pants!” I didn’t want to touch the ring pantsless!

Needless to say, though people know I would have been engaged nov 2010 (he thinks its funny 🙂 ), very few people know about the pantsless engagement!

If it makes you feel better, mine was supposed to happen twice before… He had a whole trip planned, and the weather ruined the trip… 2nd we rented a cabin in the moutains, and I fell asleep when he went to get our luggage…. really he was preparing everything…. so then the day it happened i had TERRIBLE cramps and almost ruined it, I didnt want to stop and take pictures and he kept asking…. hahaha I DIDNT KNOW!!! but i try not to think about how difficult i was being for him… POOR GUY! I feel bad thinking back! but like you said… I DIDNT know!! hahaha

Just think about all the planning he did and know that it was a special day! SMILE! 🙂